Sixto Duran Ballen

Sixto Duran Ballen (14 July 1921-15 November 2016) was President of Ecuador from 10 August 1992 to 10 August 1996, succeeding Rodrigo Borja Cevallos and preceding Abdala Bucaram. He was a member of the Social Christian Party of Ecuador and the Republican Union Party of Ecuador.

Biography
Sixto Duran Ballen was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1921, the son of an Ecuadorian diplomat, and he co-founded the Social Christian Party of Ecuador with Camilo Ponce Enriquez in 1951 and served as his Minister of Public Works from 1956 to 1960. From 1970 to 1978, he served as Mayor of Quito, and he ran for President in 1979 and 1988 before ultimately winning in 1992, forming his own right-wing Republican Union Party of Ecuador. He cut down wasteful bureaucratic spending, lowered inflation from 67% to 24%, led the country into the World Trade Organization, and resolved the Cenepa War with Peru during the last months of his presidency. He died in 2016.